ADULT LEARNING PSYCHOLOGY & PATIENT EDUCATION

Abstract

This paper will establish the psychology of adult learning styles, and their relevance to patient education of the adult and the skill set required to personal health management supported through literature. Necessary patient learning and teaching help the patient identify, define, and understand patient compliance in personal health management and available tools to achieve optimal health management. The influence of the current evolution of health care in the 21st-century involves patient-centered and focused management. To establish a new methodology of health care from disease management to health management through maintenance new philosophies must evolve and provide medical management pathways to achieve desired outcomes. To achieve overall and optimal health management patients must understand health maintenance through supported compliance, action, and individual accountability. Effective patient education in health management accountability achieves better overall patient health and improves quality of life, enjoyment, mobility, sustainability, functional status, quality, and patient longevity. The patient is accountable and in control of personal actions required to achieve optimal medical management in conjunction with the supportive health care environment to manage and maintain individual health. Education provides patients with the skills and tools available to them for optimal health and functioning in a supportive, cost-effective, culturally-supported, and patient-centered program of proactive health care management focus.